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Windham's trackage is all for passenger service. Some commuter trains to a single train at Barrett, for example, and this train will look and act like any other until it hits Oxford Junction. Here it will be switched to still originate here, but with the trend the center track and then at Windham toward greater population in the outer it will take the crossover to the left- suburbs, most of the trains stabled in hand track. Wyncote Interlocking the coach yards here are backed to completes the job by feeding it into· Rockville to begin their runs in the the yard lead of Darr Yard. It there morning- and are returned the same loses its identity as a train, and as a way in the evening. To gft from the switcher lurking in the stub track at coach yards to the inbound station Wyncote tower, comes out and starts track requires a trip back to the pushing its cars into the yard tracks. crossovers at Oxford Junction, so things are really in a stew at 7: 30 a.m. There are no engine turning facilities Thus we have our perfect excuse for having a through freight roll over the main line in both directions as of- at Windham, so single-ended locomo- ten as we want (because it's bound for tives take a nocturnal trip to Darr or from one of the imaginary destinaYard and return, facing cityward, to tions farther in, such as Clearing Windham's ready tracks to await their Yard) and then have it on some later dawn assignments. There are plenty of through pas- terminate visibly in our one actual senger trains flashing by on the C&IC, yard. but our modeled portion shows no trip become the consist for Darr and At Darr Yard, its cars for points out , coach yard facilities for them. We can to Wayne Junction are given to the justify the occasional handling and switch crew working the sidings in rearrangement of a Pullman consist in this section and they attach their fourWindham yards, though, on the ex- wheel bobber and head for Windham, I cuse of special movement creating Garnet City and Inkster. Another heavy traffic. With the downtown crew works east through Cementon coach yards filled to capacity, one of to the yard at North Clearing, while the plush jobs which had a long time the Darr Yard switcher takes the reavailable for turn-around was appar- mainder of the train to the B&0 Chiently brought out here to be made cago Terminal transfer track at the ready for the return. Wyncote is another residential town - f run backward or iorward. Mean- C&IC, like the Burlington Route, has while, the Oxford Junction tower is moved its classification yards serving kept busy in one of the prettiest ma- Chicago back td the division points on neuvers in heavy-traffic railroading, its two main lines in western Illinois. into three. Through passenger and Chicago in general, but for specific 76 Van Voorhls Ave. 0 Rochester 17. N.Y.. | freight trains generally take the yards in the Chicago area and for center track, unless there's an oppos- particular connecting roads. east end of the yard itself. The short section of track beneath still closer in. One or two commuter the bridges which: represents the runs which stop at Windham (and so AT&SF at one point and the B&OCT must be on the outer track) make no at another is primarily a piece of scenery, since no trains can run on it. other stops until Union Station. Rapid industrial growth at Garnet It does provide the clatter-bang of a City has resulted in one favorable de- grade crossing, though, and no train velopment for the C&IC; there are should get in or out of town on a laynow a few dozen "reverse commuters" out that pretends to resemble Chicago who get on at Wyncote and downtown without at least one encounter with , stops in the morning and ride out to multiple crossing frogs. Garnet City, where the management was only able to get room for a single " The bridges with a drop-leaf waterway of plywood beneath pro- " short platform by spreading the dou- vide a somewhat easier access to the ble tracks a little and squeezing it be- center of the layout for observing and tween. Otherwise deadhead equip- operating the trains after they've left ment dashing back for a second in- Garnet City. The one at low level bound trip thus gets a chance to re- over the Sanitary Canal should lift turn a little of its expenses. Wyncote Interlocking squeezes also be a bascule if you don't want to things back to two tracks as far as moves that started way back at La eliminates the prototype need. . Paz or Barrett, 200 miles away. The for river traffic, and the other could stoop, alth ough its greater height through trains for the city are con- makes this less necessary and calling cerned. It also completes a series of the water the unnavigable Des Plaines The main line continues cityward in Model Railroader